(a)  The commission may promulgate reasonable regulations concerning the offering of pay-per-call services to customers within the state. The regulations may include advertising standards, conditions under which charges for “pay-per-call services” may be adjusted or waived along with other restrictions or requirements that the commission determines are necessary to protect consumers’ reasonable access to “pay-per-call services.”

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 39-3-41

  • Commission: means the public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
  • Company: means and includes a person, firm, partnership, corporation, quasi-municipal corporation, association, joint-stock association or company, and his, her, its, or their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
  • Customer: means a company taking service from an electric distribution company at a single point of delivery or meter location. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2

(b)  For the purposes of this section, “pay-per-call service” means any passive, interactive, polling, conference, or other similar audiotext service that is accessed by telephone, through a 900 area or exchange code or otherwise, and generates a service-related fee billed to a telephone customer via a telephone common carrier or local exchange telephone company in the customer’s normal monthly bill for telephone service.

History of Section.
P.L. 1992, ch. 389, § 1.